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My domain is: prod2.femtotest.com
I ran this command: sudo apache2ctl configtest
It produced this output:
[Wed Jul 03 11:03:06.003921 2019] [so:warn] [pid 121800:tid 140290606566336] AH01574: module wsgi_module is already loaded, skipping
AH00526: Syntax error on line 117 of /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/prod2.femtotest.com.conf:
SSLCertificateFile: file ‘/etc/letsencrypt/live/prod2.femtotest.com/fullchain.pem’ does not exist or is empty
Action ‘configtest’ failed.
The Apache error log may have more information.
My web server is (include version): apache 2.4.29
The operating system my web server runs on is (include version): ubuntu 18.04
My hosting provider, if applicable, is: not applicable
I can login to a root shell on my machine (yes or no, or I don’t know): yes
I’m using a control panel to manage my site (no, or provide the name and version of the control panel): no
The version of my client is (e.g. output of certbot --version
or certbot-auto --version
if you’re using Certbot): 0.31.0
I know this topic comes up a lot. My impression from the other answers is that it has to do with a chicken and egg thing - like it needs apache to standup to do the test, but for apache to standup it needs that /etc/letsencrypt/live directory with all its stuff like fullchain.pem which doesn’t exist. So Im not sure how to get out of this state. I have seen people metion deleting certain conf files but nothing has worked so far for me. Any help would be much appreciated